XML import should support patterns for relative paths as well [SPR-5015]

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Swisslog Developers opened SPR-5015 and commented

When using <import resource="mySpringFolder/anotherSpring-cfg.xml"/> in a bean definition file, one should be able to use a pattern(most likely ant) to import multiple files with just one line.

Like this to import all config files in a folder:
<import resource="mySpringFolder/*-cfg.xml"/>

At the moment spring tells me a
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\eclipse\tomcat\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\mySpringFolder*-cfg.xml

This would make configuration of imports easier and also maintaining those import files.

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Affects: 2.5.4

Issue Links:

• Relative imports in @Configuration classes [SPR-8356] #13003 Relative imports in @Configuration classes

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Juergen Hoeller commented

This has finally been addressed for 3.0 RC1 now! Thanks for raising it.

Juergen